What's up y'all?
This is Alicia, and I'm about to watch some new music videos and see which artist gets my cosign.
When I was just starting and I was a new artist, I remember having to really show people who
I am and that I wasn't going to move from that girl, that that's just who I was.
That's what I like.
I like when I see a certain individuality or a personality and you can automatically
tell, like, "Man, that person is behind their thing."
You know?
So it’s fire.
It’s a lot of great things happening.
Okay, so the juice box is everything.
She has a dope voice.
She has a New York vibe to me.
Juice box, North Face, not super tight jeans, kind of boyish, girlish, my vibe.
You thought she was going to rhyme, but then she started to sing.
She's got attitude, but she's cute.
I really like her.
Even if it's a mellow melody, you can tell when somebody can sing, and so I can hear
that she has a voice on her too, so I loved that.
I love the simplicity.
I like the feeling of, whatever, I woke up like this, this is my vibe, you know?
Nobody really wants to see anybody trying too hard, I don't think.
That was a while ago.
So it's good. I really like it.
This person pays attention to a lot of detail.
This is crazy.
Got the egg with the face on it and then the face became the egg?
The level of detail is insane.
He definitely created this video.
Yeah, I heard this on TikTok but I never heard the whole song, I only heard the whistle.
TikTok is quick, so you literally only have time to hear the ... And that's it.
Something about a whistle in a song works every time.
Mark my words, any song that has a whistle in it works.
You can just tell he has a crazy personality.
It feels like that he makes people crack up all day long.
Hm, I like this.
It feels like what he's feeling, what he's singing about.
He's feeling and it just put ... I felt like he wants us to be in his world, he wants to
bring us to a place that's familiar to him and it feels like wherever he shot this is
somewhere that means something to him.
That's what it feels like.
The melodies are fire.
He seemed like he's been influenced by the church.
You know for me, growing up in Harlem, growing up in Hell's Kitchen, it was always this mixture
of hard and soulful.
The hardness that came from the hip-hop that I loved, also had this soulfulness to it.
Similar to like I feel like what Rod is experimenting with, it's hard but it also feels very soulful,
it feels very like, something that gets down inside of you that you can feel.
It feels like he's talking about his experience and that soulfulness is all in there and it
feels like he's really ... He means what he says.
I love somebody who means what they say.
To me, that's the best thing about music.
Okay.
Skully on.
Scarfs on.
Chains out.
Sweatshirts.
The vibe is dope too, because it's hard, but she has a joy with her.
I think what struck me immediately is all the cars.
I love seeing women in cars because that's one thing that drives me bananas.
I'm like, why does it only have to be the guys in the fresh cars?
That makes me a little bit annoyed, so I loved her in the throwbacks.
You could tell that they're fire.
The flow is fresh.
She has again, like, a rhyme style, flow but a sweet voice.
Her energy is bright.
Like we are definitely leaving behind these old standards of what a woman is supposed
to look like.
We look all types of ways, we have all types of style.
You can see that she likes sweatshirts and baggy jeans and skullies.
And then her homegirls have scarves.
All different styles, they're just all different styles.
I love seeing different styles of people all together, you know?
Hmm, the Sonic is sick.
Rae might as well jump on this.
I mean, this is exactly…
Ghost might as well be on this.
Ooh and then the colors came in crazy!
Sick visuals.
I see Hype did this.
It mixes almost the concept with the CGI, and the real life black and white, and then
your favorite video shit, where the chicks have to be in their panties and shit, all that.
But you got everything!
Buffalo produces a product, it's crazy.
You don't expect it, but it's like enough people that come from Buffalo.
It’s super throwback to the ‘90s, for sure, and I'm with it.
Like, it's going to go around and around and around forever and ever and ever.
Because like I said, great things, are timeless.
First of all, she's gorgeous.
Second of all, she's on a beach with a microphone, and like a foldout table, and her laptop that
she just finished doing this beat on.
I love that it's very imperfect.
I think that's a really beautiful thing.
Like, the headphone wires are like super tangled and not perfectly laid down on the thing.
Super expensive microphone she's singing on, by the way.
So she ain't slack on the sound.
I love her just sitting on the beach like this.
So good.
I think we finally get into a place where we thinking about this, like actually thinking
about what does it mean to care about yourself?
What does it mean to take some time for yourself and not feel guilty about it, and not feel
like you're not supposed to do it?
So I love that.
And for that to be something that people get to sing and listen to, it matters.
I loved watching these.
I loved the diversity of the artistry, all the different styles, all the different
energies.
Ama Lou, what I got from her is like a playfulness.
I was really actually excited to hear her sing.
LoveLeo definitely, super hysterical, totally made me kind of like, I already wanted to laugh.
I already actually wanted to get to know him.
He seems like the most amazing person to hang out with.
Rod Wave, I really like a lot.
Again, a soulful style, felt like real life.
He's about what's happening for real around him.
Kaash Paige was fire too.
Like, she painted a world for you, in Texas.
Like, you could feel the energy of her.
It was fresh.
It was hard.
Griselda is ridiculous.
Video is outrageous.
Savannah Cristina, I love the ease.
I love the effortlessness, and I think she's bold.
I like it.
So, I guess the artist that gets my cosign today, because this is how I'm feeling right
now, I'm going to go for Rod Wave.
He's fire.
I loved the real life energy that I got from him.
I'm interested in studying even more of his lyrics.
I'm interested in knowing more about his story.
It felt good to me.
But that was really hard.
That was really hard.
For me, I think what struck me, is just the individuality.
It feels like each person actually occupies their own lane, and you can feel, I felt,
like a piece of them in each of these visuals.
Can I get a runner up?
All right, then my runner-up would be Ama Lou.
All right?
Rod Wave gets my co-sign today, but I guess they both do.
Rod Wave and Ama Lou get my co-sign.